Dante Broadbent

I’m Andrew Broadbent, but everyone, including my wife and family, calls me Dante. I switched to that name in high school because I liked it better, no other reason than that :).

I’m 27 and this will be my 6th season as a leader in summer camps (2nd at Augusta); sadly, I only spent about three total weeks as a camper during my entire life :(. I mostly spent my younger days playing outside with other kids and reading books. I am currently studying for a Masters in Recreation Management & Policy, I have a Bachelors in Outdoor Recreation Management and I’m a licensed vocational nurse and Wilderness EMT.

I got into studying recreation because of my time at Augusta in 2012. I had just gotten back from a deployment as a nurse in Afghanistan and I loved Augusta so much I wanted to make summer camp my life’s work. 4 years later I’m studying summer camps as a graduate student, so it’s worked out pretty well! I had a great time in my undergraduate program and I currently work as a researcher and as a consultant for summer camps. I’m hoping to open a website that will make risk management simpler for companies everywhere. If that business takes off, I’ll just work at camps all the time living the good life!

At college in Utah I would occasionally dress up and attempt to teach classes unannounced. A student instagrammed this picture one time.

I love to take walks in the woods, go on bike tours, and bike commute in general. I am a big sports guy, but only eSports: I love to watch professional Starcraft 2games, ask me about it sometime! If not doing any of the above, I’m usually playing with my daughter, Briar, and my wife, Karisa, doing silly things and cooking up some adventurous dish we’ve never made before.

I was pretty silly even in Afghanistan, I even interviewed for Augusta while I was there.

I am currently living in New Hampshire attending and working at the University of New Hampshire. I’m a senator on the Graduate Student Senate and involved with many aspects of improving the campus recreation for graduate and faculty members of the community. I’m also a Sunday School teacher at my church and a leader in the local boy scout troop. This Spring I’ve been heavily involved with the business school in a entrepreneurship contest that has inspired me to pursue an MBA. As me about my submission and how I did this summer, I’ll know in May how I did!

I am so excited to work as camp again to bring back all the lessons I’ve learned since I was here last time! I’m the Master of Fun & Games (all my friends love my title) and so I have the chance to infuse all of camp with fun and magic, as well as think deeply about what it means to be a Minotaur in the middle of

My wife, Karisa, and I love to go biking on time off, nature heals the spirit!

a teddy bear maze. My job is possibly the best around, and I’m glad I’ll be able to help camp give everyone a chance to have fun each week!

My deepest wish for each camper that comes to Augusta is that they learn to lose themselves in the magic of our community. I remember feeling so loved that all my self consciousness melted away and I was able to be present and have so much fun. I hope I can show campers what someone looks like who struggles to have fun and let it all go, and still is able to let it all go to dance a zany fun time jig while being sprayed with a water gun. Camp is what helps me come out of my shell and be wholehearted, I hope to show people how that can happen for them too.

Hiking the Lost Coast & found a stranded citon!

I’m a dedicated risk manager, and I love the profession of recreation. my experience with this can be summed up by one sentence uttered after I had given a presentation on my greatest passions in risk management “it’s pretty dry stuff.” So I’m excited by things some people find uninteresting and I’m uninterested in things others find fascinating. I am also nearly blind in one eye, I whittle for fun, and I love board and card games so much I’m in a club to play/discuss new ones every week. My experiences in the military taught me a great deal about how some people choose to see the world, and I have chosen to view it another way that we at Augusta strive to embody.

I hope to see you soon!

my daughter Briar climbed a 12′ wood chip pile so we had to take a picture

random fun with friends

backpacking the redwood national park to celebrate life

I was in the army medical corps with some fun people

We encourage all kinds of art at home, we draw on all our windows!

We took this to celebrate Briar’s Augustan looking shirt

Cuddling is important for my happiness

We think that there is no bad weather, only bad clothing. We are outside with our girl in all seasons!